The gleaner; or, Entertainment for the fire-side [compiled by J. Watson].1804 |
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... manners : --- particular care will be taken to avoid whatever may have the least tendency to offend , even the most delicate mind . With an entirely new and elegant type ; with paper of a superior quality , and of a most beautiful ...
... manners : --- particular care will be taken to avoid whatever may have the least tendency to offend , even the most delicate mind . With an entirely new and elegant type ; with paper of a superior quality , and of a most beautiful ...
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... manner best , to perform his office . After a moment's reflection , he ordered a flaggon to be filled with water , and so full that another drop would have made it run over . He then desired them to introduce the candidate . The sage ...
... manner best , to perform his office . After a moment's reflection , he ordered a flaggon to be filled with water , and so full that another drop would have made it run over . He then desired them to introduce the candidate . The sage ...
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... manner had Blair , and his horse Pocket ( who when he set out upon this expedition , was , like his master , one of the finest of his spe cies ) travelled , and taken the roughs and the smooths of the world toge- ther . They were in ...
... manner had Blair , and his horse Pocket ( who when he set out upon this expedition , was , like his master , one of the finest of his spe cies ) travelled , and taken the roughs and the smooths of the world toge- ther . They were in ...
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... manners were insensibly softened , he lived a peaceable life for three years , and might have been totally reformed , if a certain person in au- thority in that country had not been tempted from motives of avarice , to deliver him and ...
... manners were insensibly softened , he lived a peaceable life for three years , and might have been totally reformed , if a certain person in au- thority in that country had not been tempted from motives of avarice , to deliver him and ...
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... manner , and bid him keep his distance , adding these words , in the same furious tone : " Soul of a dog , thi k'st thou , that I am a woman to be held by the hand ! " and then , notwithstanding the weight of his chains , he mounted his ...
... manner , and bid him keep his distance , adding these words , in the same furious tone : " Soul of a dog , thi k'st thou , that I am a woman to be held by the hand ! " and then , notwithstanding the weight of his chains , he mounted his ...
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